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There's Something About A Log Cabin on a Lake

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Real Estate Agent with John L Scott Market Center 700512026

Today is the day that my husband and I close on our sweet log cabin on the water at Fishhawk Lake. Always a momentous day for new homeowners! 

 

This will be our new office for my continuing real estate business at Fishhawk Lake and it offers clients a peek at what they, too could own here in my neck-of-the-woods!

 

Often when new  buyers of mine come to see the lake for the first time, this is the picture they have in their minds. Steeped in history, the log cabin probably pulls at our heritage, deeply embedded in memories from generations ago. Did you know that it goes back to 3500 BC? 

 

Historically log cabin construction has its roots in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Although their origin is uncertain, the first log structures were probably being built in Northern Europe by the Bronze Age (about 3500 BC).

 

Log cabins take maintenance, as do all treasured homesteads, but depending upon how the log cabin is built you will have different types of maintenance. Granted, it takes more upkeep on the exterior than do homes with T-111 for example, which many have as their exterior at Fishhawk Lake, but ohhhh, it is SO worth it for many of us who crave those handhewn logs, and the warmth and texture it offers that takes us back to a basic feeling that can be hard to describe, but so often crops up with my buyers and pulls at them in a romantic way! 

 

Log cabins also offer more warmth in the winter and coolness in the summer because of the logs themselves. Once a log home is heated, it maintains the heat really well, and keeps the cool inside during the hot summer months. Having a woodstove or propane stove to generate warmth is both efficient and pulls at the senses for those who crave being surrounded by earthtones, wooden walls, a warm fire and the joy of just being in the woods, on a lake, in a simple setting. 

 

On this special day, I can personally feel the excitement that I get to generate for my buyers who come to look for a log cabin on Fishhawk Lake. Come join me, won't you??

 

 

 Log cabin, or new construction, we have many choices to offer...please check out my lakehomesatfishhawk.com website and give me a call for a private tour! 

Comments (26)

Rebecca Gaujot, Realtor®
Lewisburg, WV
Lewisburg WV, the go to agent for all real estate

Gayle, the photo of your new log cabin is a picture-perfect post card. I love it!!

Feb 02, 2017 09:16 AM
Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

So excited for you.  So is this just an office or a second home/ office.  We don't have many log homes here, but a few.

Feb 02, 2017 10:03 AM
Beth Atalay
Cam Realty and Property Management - Clermont, FL
Cam Realty of Clermont FL

YAY!! Congratulations to Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Realtor (503)755-2905, what an exciting day for you and your husband. It is going to be great to welcome your clients to your office on the lake.

Feb 02, 2017 10:32 AM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

I am thinking Honest Abe but you probably did not get the dirt floor option LOL. I have never understood how they can be well insulated? But I am sure with modern construction they are. I do agree, it is idyllic and yours looks wonderful. Enjoy.

Feb 02, 2017 10:36 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Gayle - I'm excited for you to be back on the lake, in what may arguably be the coolest real estate office ever. Congratulations!

Feb 02, 2017 11:13 AM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Gayle- Congratulations!!  I know that if Larry saw that, we would be calling the moving van right now.  And, your experience living in the area will help prospective buyers as they make the decision to live on Fishhawk Lake. 

Feb 02, 2017 11:17 AM
Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP
DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX
Selling Homes Changing Lives

Dear Gayle,

Congratulations on making one more dream come true - this one is for you! I know you'll feel right at home in the beautiful log cabin and you will feel all of Mother Nature's good energy. I wish I cold be there with you to share in your joy, but I can't. So I shall wish you blessings in all your walks of life, especially through the trails, on the water's edge, inside the lake, and through the trees may you blessed. Best wishes in all your business activities for complete success! 

Feb 02, 2017 12:32 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Congratulations, Gayle & Larry.  You definitely will have the best real estate office ever on Fishhawk Lake.  We are really delighted for you.  A

Feb 02, 2017 01:06 PM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Sandy Padula and Norm Padula, JD, GRI NMLS#1483386 it has been incredibly well maintained! As a realtor, we all love that, don't we? That is intrinsically an added value. 

Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 airRErealty.com you paint the perfect picture and here you live in Florida!! 

Jeff Dowler actual ownership takes place on Feb 6th...a Monday. It's so beautifully appointed already that other than changing the light bulbs in the very high ceiling fan and cleaning the windows (and their very high ledges), I think we're good to go!

Lottie Kendall knowing how much you appreciate the out-of-doors hiking, etc. I think you'd be in heaven here. 

Mike Johnson, my buddy on Fishhawk Lake--you're always there supporting me, thank you!!!! I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaccccckkkkk....

 

Feb 02, 2017 06:47 PM
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

It is beautiful, I agree. My bf has one high in the hills, the views are so lovely. 

Feb 02, 2017 06:51 PM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Brian England lincoln logs, actually are sort of the right idea in thinking of this one. It's Maine pine, but no chinking. Very tight construction!

Rebecca Gaujot, the Go To Realtor® I snapped this one very quickly while on the move to meet clients, because it was the first sunny day I'd seen for quite some time. Thanks for thinking of it as a postcard--I may have to take advantage of that! 

Tammy Lankford, this will be a "primary" home/office for me, but we still have our ranch and even tho I'll spend lots of time here, it won't be where we both live. Altho, as busy as I was last year, I'll bet this one will see me there a whole lot!

Beth Atalay another cool thing is that we'll have this as a place to stay for clients who are serious and want to get a feel for the community. Granted, I will be discriminating in who stays, but we used to have a little log cabin just down the way from this one and made it an investment also, using that "try it before you  buy it" test-drive, so-to-speak.

Gary Woltal we are definitely a few steps in an upgrade from Honest Abe's. The logs themselves are great insulators. Once warmed up inside, they don't let air permeate, not a lot of "leakage" and it's the way logs are that help keep the warmth in. That may be why so many pioneers survived those awful winters! 

 

Feb 02, 2017 06:55 PM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Dick Greenberg I've already tested it with a couple of new buyers who absolutely fell in love. When one of them walked in the door, she said, "Now THIS is what I mean by a log cabin on a lake--this is perfect!"

It's so wonderful to physically have a home back at the lake, Kathy Streib . It's been a year since we were physically present there, even though we have a vacant lot--not the same. I can't wait to open it to clients. It's really got good energy, too! (Something you and I both know you can't manufacture).

Patricia Feager this is such a healing place. The other day I had to be there to run the new propane stove for a couple of hours (to burn off the new paint, etc.) I stood on the front deck and listened to the winter geese across the canal just milling about in their happiness. It was vastly quiet except for that. A welcome sound that I have missed, frankly. I love our ranch and now I have the best of both worlds! This is a different venue--so different from the open vastness of our ranch--they represent two different spheres of nature. I couldn't be happier and Larry did this for me, essentially....even though he was looking for a write-off. We were going to build and this came up, and fit us so perfectly, it was too good to pass up.  You and I could spend hours upon hours of peacefulness here together! 

Ron and Alexandra Seigel you know what it's like up here. I have my slice of paradise back in my hip pocket again! 

Inna Ivchenko your BF knows--there's nothing quite like it!

 

Feb 02, 2017 07:04 PM
Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

Congratulations on your new cabin, it looks so cute!  I am envious of your sweet little cabin by the lake!

Feb 02, 2017 07:17 PM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Oh, Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089 we may have to work out an Air B&B thing! Do a trade of vacation spots!!! 

Feb 02, 2017 07:45 PM
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Gayle well congratulations on the best and hippest Real Estate Office in the country, best part is if you guys have a philosophical disagreement one can stay at the office and sleep over:)) reminds me of  Freda's life with her husband, separate residences next to each other... Diane and I dream about it and here you have it:))Endre

Feb 02, 2017 11:11 PM
Michelle Finnamore
Toronto GTA, Alliston, Newmarket - Vaughan, ON
Preparing your property for sale

I live in Ontario near Toronto,  a large city. Fortunately I live 30- 45 minutes away from beautiful lakes and log cabins just north of us.  Staging log cabins is one of my all time favourite things to do. Such a change of pace, of feeling good in your soul just to be there for a few hours. You are a lucky lady to be able to be there enjoying your work so much.

Feb 03, 2017 04:46 AM
Debb Janes
Nature As Neighbors - Camas, WA
Put My Love of Nature At Work for You

Hurray, I'm sooo excited for you Gayle. Regardless of the reason for the cabin ( investment tax write-off), it makes perfect sense. It's already there, so much easier than trying to do a new-build log home. You do have the best of both worlds now. ( Loft in the Pearl next?) ;) Can't wait to see more photos of the interior. D 

Feb 03, 2017 01:49 PM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Endre Barath, Jr. Larry was all worried about that...since we do have it as a primary residence, primarily for my work. Our days of needing to be staying in separate quarters are not an issue. Besides, I don't see him much during the week anyway!

Michelle Finnamore you have put this so beautifully and it captures the essence of why so many feel drawn to such a place as our sweet Fishhawk Lake! I have a buyer right now, who saw a log cabin I have listed, were going to go a completely different direction and yet the one they saw kept popping up in their heads, so we are looking at it again tomorrow with a degree of seriously making an offer! 

Debb Janes EcoBroker and Bernie Stea JD we were a heartbeat away from buying this over 13 years ago, I think it is now. Their realtor wrote an offer sight-unseen for them with the contingency that they would view the cabin, and of course we know what happened! So, now we have it...ya just gotta believe those dreams will come true, just not always in our own time....it's bigger than the one we had before, too and Larry likes this one even better. 

 

Feb 03, 2017 02:12 PM
Endre Barath, Jr.

Gayle, like our lives, we do not see much of each other either during the week:) she is the early shift and I am the late shift:)Endre

Feb 03, 2017 02:15 PM
Yolanda Cordova-Gilbert
Richmond, TX

Gayle,

 COngratulations I am so excited for you, is that picture of the actual cabin, if so it is gorgeous! Cheers my friend and have a SUPER weekend!

Feb 04, 2017 10:26 AM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Yolanda Cordova-Gilbert I'm just now seeing this comment--so sorry! Yes, I took this picture on the fly in between checking on my listings! It IS gorgeous. I love walking into it...it feels like home. 

Feb 24, 2017 08:38 PM